Motivational Quotes

Service

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Service

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Curie, Madame Marie

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

10.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

11.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

12.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

13.

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

14.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

15.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

17.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

18.

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

19.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

20.

We came here to serve not be served.

21.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

22.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

24.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Einstein, Albert

25.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Eliot, Charles W.

26.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

27.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

28.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Gropius, Walter

29.

Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

Ruskin, John

30.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

31.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

32.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

34.

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

35.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Henderson, Nelson

36.

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

37.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Nightingale, Earl

38.

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

39.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

40.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

43.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Ade, George

45.

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.